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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:45:01 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>>> cp -auv |
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>> The -u part can save time but I did run into trouble with that once. I |
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>> never did figure out why but rm -rfv everything and then doing a cp -av |
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>> fixed it. Maybe it was a fluke but who knows. Also, if he is copying |
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>> to a freshly partitioned drive, there shouldn't be anything there to |
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>> update anyway so it will still copy everything. |
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> You've just explained why rsync is a better choice. |
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It may be better but my point was that I once had problems with the -u |
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option. It was a freshly formatted drive so no idea why the -u would |
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have even mattered since it has to copy everything over anyway. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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